Manual:Infantry Manual:Equipment:EW Equip

4.04 Electronic Warfare
Since the electromagnetic spectrum was first used to support combat operations, there has been a strong de-sire to prevent its use by the enemy. The following systems are designed to shield friendly units from detection by threat systems and attack those systems.

GZT-487 Field Sensor Jamming Emitter
The GZT-487 is a man-portable sensor jammer. The equipment includes a transceiver & antenna assembly stored in single backpack, and a control & memory unit attached to the STARBARS vest. For omnidirectional use, the antenna can be stored in the body of the case; however, a secondary antenna must be raised from the body of the case on an articulated arm in order for unidirectional use.

Standard use of the GZT-487 is as a white noise jammer that can conceal an area of roughly 500 square me-ters which is the maximum range of the omnidirectional antenna. When the unidirectional antenna is de-ployed, the maximum range is about 1500 meters.

GZT-544 Offensive Sensor Jamming Suite
Similar to the GZT-487, the GZT-544 Jammer is a medium weight direct attack Electronic Warfare system that will identify, scan, & locate vulnerable, unhardened computer circuitry, and, by using ionized gamma par-ticles, disrupt or destroy the circuit’s ability to carry out programs and subroutines. The GZT-544 is used pri-marily against threat combat vehicles & installations to disrupt computer systems, targeting software, commu-nications, shield generation & the subroutines of fusion generators.

The GZT-544 is composed of two man-pack portable units. The first component is a specialized combat tricorder system that has been loaded with software designed to locate & identify all known enemy multitronic & isolinear computing systems. Through library subroutines the tricorder dissects & selects the most vulnerable target areas within the computer circuitry, determines the best method of attack and transmits the data to the second component, the targeting emitter.

The targeting emitter consists of a control terminal, a capacitance power cell, a lightweight particle accelerator & a directional emitter dish. The control terminal will lock onto a target, computes the amount of ionized ener-gy needed and initiates the start-up sequence of the particle accelerator. Once the required level of ionized particles are suspended in pre-fire chamber, the control terminal calibrates the emitter for pinpoint or wide ar-ea dispersion. The terminal then initiates the firing sequence, and the charged energy are released at the target. The process takes no more than ten seconds.

Favored by forward reconnaissance and specialized direct attack units. Research is currently underway to allow the GZT-544 to be mounted as an integral part of a combat vehicle or aerospace craft to increase the survivability and effectiveness of the system.